JorgeFabregas

Pena RBI grounder to 1st. Fielder's choice at second.

BB to Upton. Bases loaded. Setting up the double play.

ESPN ain't bad.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 08:55 PM) I'm really starting to like Fields. I can care less that he doesn't have a home run yet. He has like a .850 OPS right now and is going to all fields. Good enough for me. .976

Bartlett = bad Twinkie mojo.

Fields! Triple to right-center. Upton had a handoff to Kapler in the gap. Kinda funny.

Danks with a really nice motion on his changeup. Gets the K on Navarro.

I am enjoying Kevin Kennedy's broadcasting. Is it wrong?

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:44 PM) dammit! was that ball catchable??? Detroit broadcasters said that Anderson was playing too shallow--they had said that earlier in the game as well.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:03 PM) What's the payout if they don't? Two on. Hopefully I won't find out.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:02 PM) We will score some runs this inning gauranf***ingtee What's the payout if they don't?

What are they fighting over?

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) Nice play on Fields.. but he needs to lose 15 pounds. He was chugging on that triple, and should have beat out that long throw. I agree. I think it would help him.

He should take 74.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 14, 2009 -> 01:57 PM) The baseball blog "Bleacher Report" is often interesting, but to already claim Cleveland Indians' star Grady Sizemore is on track to be the second-best center fielder ever does not help its credibility. That's not to knock Sizemore, one of baseball's top impact players. Sizemore, now in his fifth full major league season, is going to have to do a lot more, though, and for a long time, to even get into the conversation as one of, say, the 10 best players ever at his position. Let's limit that talk to Mays, Dimaggio, Mantle, Cobb, Griffey, Jr. etc., for now. It's fun to talk in "all-time" terms, but folly to take a few statistics spanning a few years and translate them into a laughable (for now at least) claim. Grady Sizemore is on pace to be the second best center fielder of all-time. Some traditionalists may have a problem with this assessment, but look at the numbers. Over a 162-game season, Sizemore has averaged 40 doubles, eight triples, 27 home runs, and 28 stolen bases. This gives him a total of 103, trailing only Ty Cobb (109) in this production profile. Similarly, Carlos Beltran has put up numbers that would make him the third best center fielder of all-time. Yeah, better than Willie Mays. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/155644-...aying-right-now Link to full article Their method is to add up XBH and SB per 162 and value them equally. That's terrible.

Weather.com now shows a 10% chance of rain at 1 PM Eastern. So it seems more likely that they would start the game and there may be a delay later on. http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/busi...topnav_business

I believe a gun has him at 84 or something like that in one of the clips. Edit: Clip I posted showed 77, 79, and 80.

I guess I can buy that.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 14, 2009 -> 09:44 AM) Howard will have fits with Noah and a Lurking Tyrus His line vs. the Bulls this year is right in line with his season averages.

I would think the best way to get a good sense statistically as to whether they're stealing signs would be to look at their home and away K rate and BB rate. I assume that these would be the stats least affected by the ballpark. I don't think it's particularly dry in their stadium, so breaking balls should still break. Here's their home and away splits thus far this year. Someone else can check on previous years and compare it with other teams' splits: Road: 24Ks in 104 PAs Road: 14 BBs in 104 PAs Home: 32 Ks in 162 PAs Home: 14 BBs in 162 PAs

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=4135439

Looks like there could be a window around the time the game is supposed to start: http://www.weather.com/outlook/homeandgard...6hr_topnav_home

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 03:29 PM) The DET announcers seem to be besides themselves on why the Sox always beat the s*** out of the Tigers. They even said "they have speed." They also said that Dye is good defensively.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Apr 11, 2009 -> 04:34 PM) Liriano is all over and Betemit swings at the first pitch. Betemit was not going to walk. Heh.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Apr 11, 2009 -> 04:32 PM) That pitch to make it 2-0 on PK was right there. Thank you. Replay showed it was inside. I did think ball 4 to Dye was close.